PT-2008-2046 · Mozilla+1 · Firefox+2

Published 2008-02-08 · Updated 2024-12-12 · CVE-2008-0414

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.12 SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.8

Description The issue allows user-assisted remote attackers to trick the user into uploading arbitrary files. This is achieved via label tags that shift focus to a file input field, a technique referred to as "focus spoofing."

Recommendations For Mozilla Firefox versions prior to 2.0.0.12, update to version 2.0.0.12 or later. For SeaMonkey versions prior to 1.1.8, update to version 1.1.8 or later.

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-0414

DSA-1484-1

DSA-1485-2

DSA-1489-1

DSA-1506-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1

RHSA-2008:0208

RHSA-2008_0208

Affected Products

Firefox

Red Hat

Seamonkey

References · 1914

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-0414 · Security Note
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00381.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-238492-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1489 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:14572-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1484 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00309.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1485 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00006.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1506 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/openSUSE-SU-2024:10600-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00274.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:048 · Vendor Advisory
• http://gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200805-18.xml · Vendor Advisory
• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-576-1 · Vendor Advisory